US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Nov. 25 for "Three dimensional proximity detection for information handling system" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,394, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Three dimensional proximity detection for information handling system" was invented by Hong-Ji Huang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Yi-Fan Wang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods and systems for switching between a normal scanning mode and a proximity detection mode for a touchscreen of an information handling system, such as a laptop or notebook personal computer. When the information handling system is in idle mode, proximity detection is enabled, by grouping sensors of the touchscreen to transmit and to received, creating ...